What is the intangible quality of ‘grace’, and why is it becoming an increasingly rare currency? Join Julia Baird, the acclaimed and bestselling author of Phosphorescence and Victoria: The Queen as she talks about her new book Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything. This beautiful and timely work focuses on this most mysterious but necessary of human qualities.
Julia Baird is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist, known for hosting The Drum on ABC TV. Julia writes columns for a range of publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the New York Times. Her third novel, Phosphorescence, won the Australian Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2021.
Catherine Keenan is the executive director and co-founder of Story Factory, a not-for-profit creative writing centre for young people and was also the Australian of the Year Local Hero for 2016. Previously Catherine has been a journalist, arts writer and literary editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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